Indiana hoists Big Ten championship trophy after Tuesday’s loss to Ohio State (screen grab via ESPN3.com)
Had Indiana clinched its first outright league title since 1993 by beating Ohio State, the Hoosiers could have celebrated in front of a sellout crowd by donning championship hats, cutting down the nets at Assembly Hall and hoisting a Big Ten trophy.
Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller watching senior night festivities (via ESPN3.com)Instead Indiana staggered to a surprising 67-58 loss Tuesday night … and still did all the rest of that stuff anyway.
In a coronation that felt anticlimactic and ill-timed, Indiana president Michael McRobbie awarded the team with a silver Big Ten championship trophy at the end of senior night festivities even though the Hoosiers still have one more conference game to play. They’ve known they’ll have at least a share of the league title since Michigan State and Wisconsin both lost this past weekend, but they’ll only earn it outright by winning at Michigan on Sunday.
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